The Liberal Democrats will do just about anything for a vote. In an attempt to appeal to the environmentally conscious, they have ambitiously added an array of green initiatives to their policy programme. Though they often say the right thing in detail, in general they have yet to grasp the plot. Their natural stance as a party with free trade and big business as its first priority continues to prevent them from putting green ideas into practice in a coherent way. As the past has clearly shown, their selfproclaimed position as the only party with viable measures for protecting the environment is one that is marked by hypocrisy and what many Greens see as a shocking lack of principle.

Website: http://www.greenparty.org.uk/files/reports/2005/too_yellow_to_be_green_2.htm